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Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!
Join groups! Browse for groups for your PIR date, your sailor's occupational specialty, "A" school, assigned ship, homeport city, your own city or state, and a myriad of other interests. Jump in and introduce yourself! Start making friends that can last a lifetime.
Link to Navy Speak - Navy Terms & Acronyms: Navy Speak
All Hands Magazine's full length documentary "Making a Sailor": This video follows four recruits through Boot Camp in the spring of 2018 who were assigned to DIV 229, an integrated division, which had PIR on 05/25/2018.
Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)
Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC
...and visit Navy.com - America's Navy and Navy.mil also Navy Live - The Official Blog of the Navy to learn more.
OPSEC - Navy Operations Security
Always keep Navy Operations Security in mind. In the Navy, it's essential to remember that "loose lips sink ships." OPSEC is everyone's responsibility.
DON'T post critical information including future destinations or ports of call; future operations, exercises or missions; deployment or homecoming dates.
DO be smart, use your head, always think OPSEC when using texts, email, phone, and social media, and watch this video: "Importance of Navy OPSEC."
Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:
Events
**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:
In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED. Vaccinations still required.
**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.
RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021
Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.
Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.
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- Graduation Info
- PDF – 2.7 MB
- PNG – 2.3 MB
- JPG – 3.4 MB
- Printable PDF – 2.0 MB
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A group for moms, family members, spouses or significant others of Naval Flight Officers. A place to share stories, information, and to support each other.
Members: 43
Latest Activity: Dec 13, 2021
My son graduated in 2004, was winged in 2006, has been on one deployment, and was recently selected for Test Pilot School- yes they take NFO's! It's been an exciting and sometimes emotional few years.
Please tell us a little about yourself and your NFO. If you have questions about training, deployment, or anything else, please ask. There will be several members with experience to help out the newbies.
Discussion Forum
Travel on USS Theodore Roosevelt - Parent of Officer
Started by ProudStepMom. Last reply by ProudStepMom Feb 14, 2018. 4 Replies 0 Likes
My son said there was a possibility that a family member could travel on the aircraft carrier from Hawaii to California (at the end of deployment). He didn't know if this opportunity was limited to…Continue
Merry Christmas, all!
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Hope you all are having a wonderful holiday! Tracy DID get to come home for Christmas weekend :-) I LOOOOOVE having her on the West Coast for the first time in 4 years :-) Love to all....
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Comment by BaylorMamaBear on December 13, 2021 at 9:48pm
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Hello Moms!
My son is a SNFO in Pensacola & he is still in Primary. He has said all along that he wants P-8s and apparently he is doing fantastic. His various instructors have told him something along the lines of “your skills would be great for jets”. My question is this: have your NFOs “gotten” their first choice or were they selected for another platform? I’m just curious. I appreciate any feedback. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!
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It has taken almost an entire year for my son to get to the Navy NFO program (started out thinking he wanted to go Nuke), but he is so excited to finally get to OCS then Pensacola. So far he has been told he should be going early in the Fall, but that can change. I see NFO as a much better fit for my son (than Nuke), so I am really happy for him.
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Comment by Rose on February 15, 2018 at 5:24am
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SmIlNgNaVyMoM, happy to help! -- Rose
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Comment by Marianne on September 10, 2017 at 3:08pm
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Glad you found us, Fran. The aviation group will also be a big help, but this is an even smaller community and there are some points where the pilot/NFO tracks really diverge.
No question is silly, so ask away. This group was a godsend when my LO (Loved One) headed off after winging to 3 years in Japan (his 1st pick).
One thing to be careful of on all sites, and postings on social media is OPSEC. That stands for Operational Security and simply means that you want to be careful not to divulge details on what your daughter in particular or what the Navy in general is doing. That's why we tend to use DS (Dear Son), DD (Dear Daughter), etc.
Navy for Moms is a great site, but there is no vetting and anyone can join up.
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Comment by Fran on September 10, 2017 at 12:23pm
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I am so happy to have found this page and I thank all of you for your help and support in advance:)
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Hi all. I am new to this group. My daughter commissioned out of Villanova's NROTC program in May and recently reported to Pensacola for NFO training. She has not started training yet. We ask her how she likes the official Navy so far and she thinks the people are nice and the beaches are great:)
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If you're looking for wiinging gift ideas: We gave our NFO a custom framed artwork piece as a winging gift. Wish I could remember the cost but I think it was in the $300 range, but you can design your own to suit any budget.
Worked out the details via phone & email with a great guy, Butch, at Wings Pensacola Inc, 1-800-642-9464. (Do a browser search on "Wings Pensacola Inc" & you will see the website address. Not sure if posting a website in this forum is okay.)
The website's "Customer Service Page" has details for customizing plus a link to a Photobucket with samples of finished pieces.All details can be customized: format, matting, frame, number & types & positioning of items (patches, fleet aircraft prints, info card). Our NFO knew about his gift ahead of time & dropped off the patches to be added, but Butch can also get patches if needed.
We picked up the gift at his store on South Navy Blvd when we arrived in P'cola for the winging and had fun looking around the store.
The website also has a gift catalogue (if you want other ideas beside the framed artwork) and other general aviation items.
Hope you find this info helpful. Congrats to your aviators!
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I think it depends on the platform. My DS is in Hawkeye. He was in P'Cola and then went to Norfolk, where he winged
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Do NFO's have to do any time at Whiting Field, or are they strictly at Pcola? Trying to find housing and wondered if he should try for Angel Cove. Thanks
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She just commissioned. But, I am doing financial projections to see what her maximum contribution to the TSP retirement plan can be. I am also doing her sister (who is working on a transfer to nuke) & nukes get a total of $17,000 after completion of nuke school. That's probably why the bonus here does not seem like much.
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